Jimmy Quon was a beloved chess player from the Southern
California Community who taught chess at La Jolla Country Day School for 14
years. At one time he taught 15% of the student body. In the
end, he had coached over 1000 players. Our deepest respect and appreciation goes out to
the Jimmy Quon for promoting and cultivating chess
talents in the greater Southern California area.

The tournament will be a 10 player round-robin (all play all), with
rounds scheduled as follows - 19th: 7:00 PM, 20th: 11:00 AM & 5:00 PM,
21st: 11:00 AM & 5:00 PM, 22nd: 10:00 AM & 4:00 PM, 23rd: 9:00 AM &
3:00 PM. Spectators are welcome and encouraged to come to watch the games in
person at the tournament site. There will be two master commentary days live
on-site. Read Full details about the commentary on www.chess.com/tv.

As a lead into this tournament we have included a previous encounter of
two of the participants, FM Robby Adamson, and GM Melikset Khachiyan. The game
has been annotated by Grandmaster-Elect
Sam Shankland for your viewing. More games from this specific tournament
will be viewable here with annotations from GM-Elect Shankland. Later in the
year in future norm tournaments from the Metropolitan series, with their
tournament schedule permitting, we will bring you annotations from Grandmasters
Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana. We will also continue to bring you annotations
from GM-Elect Shankland for this current tournament and in future tournaments
in this series.

Will these two
players have the same result in their rematch, will anyone score the coveted
Grandmaster norm, and who will win the tournament? Stay tuned for more updates
and watch the games relayed live on www.chess.com to find out.